I’ve been playing this game for 10+ years now, and somehow this has been the most refreshing series I’ve found this year. Crazy how after 10 years you can still learn new things from your favorite games 👍🏼
I really appreciate you building the "simple" version of the spawner farm first, for those who might not yet have all the resources to gather, and then showing the "upgrade" process. It makes this an easy video to come back to later, when you do have all the materials.
What’s really impressive for me is how incredibly consistent Pix’s voice is even with cuts, both in volume, quality, and enunciation. Really feels high level
Thank you! My timing is off with the lava bucket, do you know how to fix that? Basically I step on the pressure plate and it pushes the slabs forward and no lava bucket. I step off of the plate and the lava bucket is used, any help by chance?
@@cyrusmortazavi7941 I have a similar issue. I step on plate, and everything dispenses just fine. I step off, and a pool of lava is still sitting there starting to expand to the floor unless I hop back onto the plate again to cut it off. Eventually i can time it just right to stop spreading lava everywhere, but still annoying.
@@j3rry367 nope, I resigned to just get rid of the plate and manually swipe at them. Another helpful tip, I tunneled back and up towards the spawner so that I can afk there a bit. I noticed a lot more skeletons would spawn the closer I was.
Great episode Pix! Quick tip for those following along: Consider raising your difficulty to Hard when at the spawner! It'll increase the number of enchanted armor/bow drops!
This series is so professional. I’m 30 and I’ve been playing since the game’s launch and I’m so impressed by Pix. Even the “hang around after the break” before the mid roll advertisement, then a “welcome back”. So incredibly professional.
While it used to be a thing, I'm glad that you showed that you do not need full durability on bows to be able to use them to craft dispensers with. Dripstone also increases fall damage, in case you don't want or need a full 23 block drop damage the mobs with. You also have that abandoned mineshaft earlier, which I'm sure that you will explore in a future episode. Hope you find at least a 4x cave spider spawner there. GL/GH!
I wish I'd known that about the dripstone before I built a 27-block high water pipe to get mobs from a near-surface spawner at my village high enough. 😅
I've never seen a farm design like that and it looks so cool!! Makes me want to go and find a skeleton/zombie spawner on my world, even if I already have access to endermans, just to try it for myself!
Yay easy farm designs! Definitely more practical than making the killing area deeper down for fall damage and afk-ing near the spawner beforehand, like I used to. Honestly really happy you're uploading so frequently again, I really enjoy watching a pixlriffs video when I eat lunch!
I've been playing MC off and on since 2020, I've never seen somebody make a spawner with the pistons like that, it's amazing, fun and different. I also love that you take the time to break everything down in your videos. Keep up the amazing work man. Subbed.
It's a bit more of a process than that. Skeletons have to stew in the powder snow for a bit before converting, and you also want to make sure you have accommodations for skeletons that spawn with leather boots on, because they won't be able to go through the powder snow. But in essence, it's a great idea and totally worth it if you have a mending bow over infinity, I built one on a server and it was awesome!
The best thing about watching the Pix building the redstone spawner is that it’s not a tutorial but more of a step by step explanation of why he’s doing what he’s doing. Great stuff, I’m now going to try that redstone….i will surely die😂
I was JUST going to search up for a Skeleton Farm for my world today and am surprised you uploaded one! Thank you Pix! Definitely going to follow through with this!
I had completely forgotten that redstone on transparent blocks can't travel downwards. even after having played for 10 years i keep learning new things with these series! keep it up with the amazing work you do! :)
I really appreciate the content! Though I've been playing minecraft for quite a few years, I've never been a consistent survival player. Your (newly discovered by me) series has really helped tremendously in learning new tips and tricks and improving the efficiency of my survival world. For this series in particular, I play the videos while I play mc on a separate device, that way I can get some work done on my own world while still learning some new stuff!
That was an interesting bit of redstone, nice job. I'm also very proud of my spawner setup, it has a lava farm, an autosorter and also an autodispenser for excess stuff, it shoots it into lava because I don't need a hundred bows. I like to combine the bows they drop until I have my favourite, and I melt the armour down to nuggets. It's the world's slowest iron farm.
This is the most unique skeleton spawner farm I've seen yet. I've been playing Minecraft for 10 years but I still learn new stuff from your survival guide. Keep up the good work Pix!!!
If I ever had to describe what 'pumping out content' meant to a layman I would just show them the release times of this series of videos This is a compliment
Hey Pixlriffs a tip that I liked to use with those long ladder drops was instead of having the water block in the floor it was two blocks up and held in place with signs, it still cancels the fall damage but you don't have to swim up and out the water every time.
I got a spawner really close to base, still at stone level, and for some reason it spawns a ton of glowsquid too (cant complain too much about it, its nice to have some glow ink). I'm going to try to adjust the farm to be more like this one :) One thing I've done at mine was adding a mini autosmelter (eg, just 1 furnace lol) to make use of the broken bows as fuel while waiting for the spawns
Yeah I always seperated out the enchanted bows and armor from the other stuff, burned the bows in a smelter and smelted the armor after disenchanting them. Enchanted bows would be kept for combining into mega bows with infinity rather than mending
I watched the first series but stopped playing minecradt for a while, so i did not watch the second season. I returned to minecraft now and im so glad that I did and that i returned to the channel. Congrats from Brazil.
My son got me into minecraft about a month ago and now he's mad because I'm upgrading faster than him all thanks to videos like this! Haven't got to the Redstone part of the build yet but the simple version has been working great so far. Keep up the great tutorials
Fantastic video mate. Simple and effective presentation, no-nonsense approach, can totally relate to the slight sidetracking to pick up the resources. Thanks a bunch for this. Keep at it 😎
I've been playing Minecraft since 2015; I think my first major version that I used was 1.8.6. I usually spend 4-12 hours each calendar day. However.... I've learned more in this series than almost any other series. Thank you, Pixlriffs
I recently made a Skeleton Grinder myself and decided to give it a themed interior Design. Now it looks like a dark crypt like in Diablo 3 and the drop spot is a central sarcophagus. Its EP 14 if anyone's interested :) Very much appreciated!!
I haven't seen all of your videos but I have watched many videos by many creators and this is the first time I have ever seen a mob farm done like this! Definitely going to have to try it out.
This is far more fun to see then the drop shoot style farm. And no need for early game nether stuff.thanks for this one Pixel I will be making it in my own world as well.
That's such a clever design, simple but efficient! I've always struggled with making skeleton farms but I've loved them once they're finished. Bonemeal is a very powerful item in the game, don't miss out on this farm if you're a new player.
I usually go the water elevator route, but I really like the lava burner setup. You don't need soul sand and it's more compact. Gonna give this one a go in my world
I don’t usually do mob farms bc I struggle with making them but this tutorial was actually really helpful and easy for me to make thanks for sharing it
A little tip for keeping your XP farm dark is something I learned when making my accidental drowned XP farm. Which is that amethyst geodes are great to use for your permanent skeleton farm. Because getting stained glass means you can keep the area around the spawned lit up outside the farm while the inside is still dark.
We've been playing with my son for 1.5 years, and Pixelriffs is an absolute reference : informative, the builds work, and it's a goldmine of knowledge about the game itself. Many many thanks ! Btw : would you consider enabling the "thanks" feature in RUclips ?
I forgot just how breakneck your pace of episode release is for the survival guides. You're a goddamn high quality video machine! A machine, i tells ya!
I'm back after making this xp farm in my own world... found a skeleton spawner not too far from home, though it's located at -20 or so... quite a trip down. Had to block off my ladder as it passed through caves three times! A nice build. I like the glass blocks so we can watch the skellies burn after you hit them. Gotta get used to the dance on the pressure plate to turn it off and on. But this was satisfying, and not too hard--worked correctly the first time through! Next up, decorating the place and making it nice.
That's a pretty cool design to weaken the skeletons without soul sand. I have thought about a similar concept, but I thought your hit had to be the final blow for it to count as your kill. Thanks for the new info!
Yet again, Bedrock has some slight differences: Spawners on Bedrock only spawn mobs up to a "taxicab" distance of 4 blocks away: that is, 4 blocks away in straight lines, but with the ends of those lines connected diagonally to form a diamond shape. The one block above and below rule still applies. You can't currently (i.e. in 1.20.0) sneak under slabs on Bedrock, but that should be changing soon.
Just finished my own skeleton spawner farm (and perhaps the first spawner farm I've ever made). Works like a charm! Just need to remember some mobs will spawn with enchanted armor. I got a good spook when a skeleton with Thorns showed up. I thought I got hit by one of them even though I was sure I had set it up right.
I love your videos, and I'm excited to see what you build for the farm! I've used the same farm since 1.13, so I wonder if you're going to use that*, or a new design! Maybe one that uses newer blocks, like dripstone? Edit: *nope! The farm I use uses a soul sand bubble elevator to lift mobs, then drop them to make them only need one hit after fall damage. BUT, I like this design Way more!! I honestly hated building the bubble column, so this is great!
Hey Pix, on the edge where the water stops at the 2 gap drop, if you replace the last row under the water with stairs, the mobs wont get caught on the edge. (they sometimes hang up on the edges in my experience). also if you put an armor stand next to the spot where the mobs are, and if you attack the armor stand (with sweeping edge) it will kill the mobs in the spot next to the armor stand, applying the effects of your sword, and the sword will not take damage when attacking the armor stand.
It's a good idea to put blocks above the spawner to prevent any spawns on top of the spawner itself. If a mob spawns there it will stay there and slow your rates slightly. Edit: Addressed at 19:35
Just want to say thank you. Ive been playing for 147 hours now destroyed my first spawner coz i didnt know as im new yes im 38 play it coz of my kids but now 147 hours in amd enjoying it lol but the first couple i tried took ages and never got it to work this 1 is perfect for someone like me liked and subscribed because of this 👌👌
Nice build and a classic lava design. I built something similar with the skeleton spawners deeper in that cave system, but very nearby the house build. For the Spider example, go exploring the caves on that Cherry Grove Mountain, you'll be surprised what is literally sitting in view.
Wow... that's a lot of instructions. I'll rewatch this when I'm ready for my skeleton xp farm. :-) My grandson built an xp farm way back years ago. It was a blaze - it was really neat. I am slow when it comes to the red stone. LOL I'm gonna make one of these though.
As a suggestion for dealing with zombies spawning on top of spawners (it wont work for skeletons due to them having ranged attacks) instead of blocking the top of the spawner with a slab which cuts down spawn area more than you think. I would suggest a snow golem. all you have to do is is make a small peep hole at the same level as the block above the spawner inside the walls of your farm. just cage the golem in and it will shoot zombies off the spawner. Basically the block your golem stands on should be the same y level -1 as your spawner. This is very cheap you just need a shovel to get snow which you have shown in the series and a carved pumpkin head. leaving this block open for spawns above the spawner increases spawn rate due to spawners not actually spawning mobs in the middle of a block but anywhere where there is open air as long as the zombie's hit box is not colliding with a block, this means with a slab you're not blocking off 1 spawn but the entire area of the block for spawns to occur.
I had to slow the speed down to .75 to follow what you were doing with the redstone :) I've never seen that contraption before! A good way to kill them with just one swipe without having to make a drop shaft! Speaking of drop shafts, that 1x1 water block in the floor under the hole is kind of dangerous, if you are at all off-center, you'll hit the edge and die (I've seen 2 hard-core players die that way on their streams). I always put a water block 3 blocks above the floor. That way your fall distance is reset when you hit that water and you land on the floor with no damage and no worries about landing exactly in the right spot.
DerpCrafturr!! I've been using his shower forever!!!! Got to play a bit to work with the latest MC version, but it always gets a lol. His snow golem mob farm is fun too. Thanks for the world download and the memories, BTW you can use a dead chicken to kill mobs with the mob softener
Great video, awsome farm! Consider the idea maybe in the future auto farming xp and loot with the help of wolves? Wolf? Also there's an old ilmango's video showing how you can increase the spawn rates by about 5 or 10%, not with a slab on top of the spawner but with a dropper and some fence gates, but that's maybe too much to ask for a early game player. Keep up the good vibes!
Yeah, I didn’t want to overcomplicate things with the fence gate setup - but to be honest, this farm is productive enough for now anyway. We might talk about wolves later, but if skeletons spawn with thorns armour they can eventually deal enough damage to kill the wolves - so wolves are better for automation in wither skeleton farms, where the skellies never spawn with armour.
For greater efficiency, the initial spawning room should be 9x9x9. That is the region the spawner will produce skeletons. But there is a maximum number of mobs that can be inside that area before the spawner turns itself 'off' until some leave the region. To get around that restriction, once you've dug out the 9x9x9 area centered on the spawner, dig the chamber 2 blocks lower. That way when skeleton's spawn they drop outside of the region and their numbers don't count towards the spawning limit, and you produce more mobs.
The spawning region is 9x3x9, and the spawner will take a minimum of 10 seconds before it checks a 9x9x9 area and attempts to spawn more skeletons. The water will easily clear them within that time, so there's no reason to dig it out any deeper than that.
@@Pixlriffs The presence checking area is 9x9x9, though, and the mob limit is 6 for the spawned type. That's why some people recommend leaving 6 blocks of space below the spawner, as mobs can sometimes take more time to clear the area than the spawner's random delay, which is roughly between 10 and 40 seconds.
Hi, Pixilriffs. Thank you for the tutorial. I've been looking for a way to fix my existing skeleton farm. This is exactly what I needed. Keep up the awesome work. And, take care. o/
You can use dripstone spikes and make the skeletons or zombies to fall down from a height of 11 or 12 block to kill them with a single hit; it's a little bit easier to build if you're lazy like me! (or if you're scared of redstone)
Just yesterday I found a skele spawner and I thought, I'll make a farm, pretty sure I know how, I wake up and see the notification, thank you pix, it's as if it was meant to be
@19:59 I like to include a redstone lamp setup in the ceiling, above the slab so that at any point I can turn on/off the spawner without having to go back inside the chamber. But that would be more advanced redstone than Pixlriffs probably wants to cover right now.
@@Pixlriffs agreed... The Nether can be hazardous at the beginning, especially depending on which biome you get at the portal. Unfortunately for me, it was a bit rough as I got "lucky" to have a basalt delta as my initial foray into the nether in my new 1.20 world.
@@Pixlriffs could using a redstone torch as a light source work temporarily? sending power to the lit torch would turn the torch off and power the spawner.
Last skeleton/xp farm setup I made involved a water slide and a soul campfire at the bottom, with hoppers and chests to collect what I wanted... and a simple lava disposal pit to the side for things I didn't. I like this setup though, and may try it in my current world. I've found a few monster spawners in the unreasonably large cave system under my home.
Hey @pixlriffs, you're going to need to go back to the skelly farm and replace the wood with stone - proximity to the lava keeps catching it on fire breaking the Redstone.
Pix , I have a suggestion for you: Take atleast 2 days to publish next video it will be better. Most of the successful youtubers take time to upload their videos, If you start doing this then you will definitely get more views. Don't let people lose interest in this season 3. Don't make the same mistake you did in season 2.
People who are playing with him in their worlds will not be able to cope up with him because he plays and uploads so much, far more than what normal people play. That's why slowly his survival guides lose interest.
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I’ve been playing this game for 10+ years now, and somehow this has been the most refreshing series I’ve found this year. Crazy how after 10 years you can still learn new things from your favorite games 👍🏼
This is what I was thinking as well
I love that you started by giving us a really simple skeleton farm design.
In fact, you could say he gave us a *bare bones* design?
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I really appreciate you building the "simple" version of the spawner farm first, for those who might not yet have all the resources to gather, and then showing the "upgrade" process. It makes this an easy video to come back to later, when you do have all the materials.
What’s really impressive for me is how incredibly consistent Pix’s voice is even with cuts, both in volume, quality, and enunciation. Really feels high level
If you're playing on bedrock, replace the redstone repeater with redstone dust. That fixes the pulsing issue.
Thank you! My timing is off with the lava bucket, do you know how to fix that? Basically I step on the pressure plate and it pushes the slabs forward and no lava bucket. I step off of the plate and the lava bucket is used, any help by chance?
@@cyrusmortazavi7941 I have a similar issue. I step on plate, and everything dispenses just fine. I step off, and a pool of lava is still sitting there starting to expand to the floor unless I hop back onto the plate again to cut it off. Eventually i can time it just right to stop spreading lava everywhere, but still annoying.
@@Sublime-zx6ft Did you find a fix for this?
@@j3rry367 nope, I resigned to just get rid of the plate and manually swipe at them. Another helpful tip, I tunneled back and up towards the spawner so that I can afk there a bit. I noticed a lot more skeletons would spawn the closer I was.
@@cyrusmortazavi7941 I have the exact same issue. Bedrock is frustrating.
Great episode Pix! Quick tip for those following along: Consider raising your difficulty to Hard when at the spawner! It'll increase the number of enchanted armor/bow drops!
This series is so professional.
I’m 30 and I’ve been playing since the game’s launch and I’m so impressed by Pix. Even the “hang around after the break” before the mid roll advertisement, then a “welcome back”. So incredibly professional.
The pure excitement when Pixlriffs uploads can't be expressed! We all love your content, keep the grind going! 👍
Literally splurted out "YES, lets go" when i saw it just now haha
Followed by the sadness after realizing you have to now wait another day for the next episode.
@@jonez77thank god its only one day not one week or more
Yea
While it used to be a thing, I'm glad that you showed that you do not need full durability on bows to be able to use them to craft dispensers with. Dripstone also increases fall damage, in case you don't want or need a full 23 block drop damage the mobs with. You also have that abandoned mineshaft earlier, which I'm sure that you will explore in a future episode. Hope you find at least a 4x cave spider spawner there. GL/GH!
I wish I'd known that about the dripstone before I built a 27-block high water pipe to get mobs from a near-surface spawner at my village high enough. 😅
I've never seen a farm design like that and it looks so cool!! Makes me want to go and find a skeleton/zombie spawner on my world, even if I already have access to endermans, just to try it for myself!
Very good supply of bone meal and enchanted bows
Yay easy farm designs! Definitely more practical than making the killing area deeper down for fall damage and afk-ing near the spawner beforehand, like I used to.
Honestly really happy you're uploading so frequently again, I really enjoy watching a pixlriffs video when I eat lunch!
I've been playing MC off and on since 2020, I've never seen somebody make a spawner with the pistons like that, it's amazing, fun and different.
I also love that you take the time to break everything down in your videos. Keep up the amazing work man. Subbed.
Consider powdered snow at the bottom to make them drop slowness arrows
It's a bit more of a process than that. Skeletons have to stew in the powder snow for a bit before converting, and you also want to make sure you have accommodations for skeletons that spawn with leather boots on, because they won't be able to go through the powder snow.
But in essence, it's a great idea and totally worth it if you have a mending bow over infinity, I built one on a server and it was awesome!
You need a cobweb below the powder snow to keep the mob head buried long enough for the conversion.
@@brickbot2.038 I don't get leather boot skeletons enough to worry about them. You can also push them horizontally into the snow instead of a drop.
Actually if their feet are in it, it's enough to turn them into a stray
Just remember not to use fire aspect sword on them. The snow melts when a mob on fire is in it.
The best thing about watching the Pix building the redstone spawner is that it’s not a tutorial but more of a step by step explanation of why he’s doing what he’s doing. Great stuff, I’m now going to try that redstone….i will surely die😂
I was JUST going to search up for a Skeleton Farm for my world today and am surprised you uploaded one! Thank you Pix! Definitely going to follow through with this!
I know practically nothing about redstone in this game so I’m so excited to learn some from this series as it progresses!
I was literally about to start making my own skele farm. It will be nice to listen to you explaining how to do it, even if I know how
I've never seen a skeleton farm like that and it looks so cool!! Makes me want to go and find a skeleton to try it for myself!
This design is genius for early game! I've always waited until I got soul sand, but this was game-changing. Well done, Pixlriffs!
I had completely forgotten that redstone on transparent blocks can't travel downwards. even after having played for 10 years i keep learning new things with these series! keep it up with the amazing work you do! :)
I really appreciate the content! Though I've been playing minecraft for quite a few years, I've never been a consistent survival player. Your (newly discovered by me) series has really helped tremendously in learning new tips and tricks and improving the efficiency of my survival world. For this series in particular, I play the videos while I play mc on a separate device, that way I can get some work done on my own world while still learning some new stuff!
That was an interesting bit of redstone, nice job. I'm also very proud of my spawner setup, it has a lava farm, an autosorter and also an autodispenser for excess stuff, it shoots it into lava because I don't need a hundred bows. I like to combine the bows they drop until I have my favourite, and I melt the armour down to nuggets. It's the world's slowest iron farm.
This is the most unique skeleton spawner farm I've seen yet. I've been playing Minecraft for 10 years but I still learn new stuff from your survival guide. Keep up the good work Pix!!!
I've never seen a kill chamber setup like that before. Thanks for sharing
Pixlriffs i hope I’m not only one here telling you that your builds are beyond awesome.
If I ever had to describe what 'pumping out content' meant to a layman I would just show them the release times of this series of videos
This is a compliment
Hey Pixlriffs a tip that I liked to use with those long ladder drops was instead of having the water block in the floor it was two blocks up and held in place with signs, it still cancels the fall damage but you don't have to swim up and out the water every time.
The signs don’t water log or wash away?
Also Java or bedrock?
@@KJ7Tillymannin both versions, the signs won't wash away
@@KJ7Tillymannyou have to use the signs on adjacent block faces from the water to hold it in place
@@CliftoniumDaBruh alright, thank you
@@KJ7Tillymann in my java games they work the same as fence gates but make a better air block to fall through.
It's 6 am but I'm not complaining new upload!
And yet again, I've learned something new! I hadn't seen the lava option like that before ! Gonna try this design asap!
I got a spawner really close to base, still at stone level, and for some reason it spawns a ton of glowsquid too (cant complain too much about it, its nice to have some glow ink). I'm going to try to adjust the farm to be more like this one :) One thing I've done at mine was adding a mini autosmelter (eg, just 1 furnace lol) to make use of the broken bows as fuel while waiting for the spawns
I've had a little glow ink appear in this farm. Glow squid spawn below Y=30.
wait you can use bones a fuel?????
@@TehOof_lord No, but you can use bows.
@@Cheesius ah ok i misread the comment
Yeah I always seperated out the enchanted bows and armor from the other stuff, burned the bows in a smelter and smelted the armor after disenchanting them. Enchanted bows would be kept for combining into mega bows with infinity rather than mending
I watched the first series but stopped playing minecradt for a while, so i did not watch the second season. I returned to minecraft now and im so glad that I did and that i returned to the channel. Congrats from Brazil.
Love the super simple build start followed by the upgrade, easy to follow and the redstone is nicely explained.
My son got me into minecraft about a month ago and now he's mad because I'm upgrading faster than him all thanks to videos like this! Haven't got to the Redstone part of the build yet but the simple version has been working great so far.
Keep up the great tutorials
Fantastic video mate. Simple and effective presentation, no-nonsense approach, can totally relate to the slight sidetracking to pick up the resources. Thanks a bunch for this. Keep at it 😎
I've been playing Minecraft since 2015; I think my first major version that I used was 1.8.6. I usually spend 4-12 hours each calendar day. However....
I've learned more in this series than almost any other series. Thank you, Pixlriffs
ive been playing this game for years and its rare that i learn something new. today is one of those rare days
I recently made a Skeleton Grinder myself and decided to give it a themed interior Design. Now it looks like a dark crypt like in Diablo 3 and the drop spot is a central sarcophagus. Its EP 14 if anyone's interested :) Very much appreciated!!
I haven't seen all of your videos but I have watched many videos by many creators and this is the first time I have ever seen a mob farm done like this! Definitely going to have to try it out.
This is far more fun to see then the drop shoot style farm. And no need for early game nether stuff.thanks for this one Pixel I will be making it in my own world as well.
This series is tremendous! You make the hard parts of this game easy to follow which is no mean feat.
I built this today on my resource scarce pure Pale Garden world. Saves me a lot of swords.
Thank you. :)
Great video, I'm really enjoying the new series! I'd love to hear you do short descriptions of how this thing works alongside the build how-to.
That's such a clever design, simple but efficient! I've always struggled with making skeleton farms but I've loved them once they're finished. Bonemeal is a very powerful item in the game, don't miss out on this farm if you're a new player.
Love this design. Since you found some amethyst earlier, you could consider using some tinted glass so that you can see the spawner working!
Even after playing this game for 12 years I still enjoy these videos :D
I usually go the water elevator route, but I really like the lava burner setup. You don't need soul sand and it's more compact. Gonna give this one a go in my world
Whoa! That’s a very cool skeleton system! I’ve been playing for 10+ years and never thought to do something like this. Thank you for the idea! ❤☠️
thank you so much for this video, genuinely helped me with my "Skelefarm" in my Grand World
I don’t usually do mob farms bc I struggle with making them but this tutorial was actually really helpful and easy for me to make thanks for sharing it
A little tip for keeping your XP farm dark is something I learned when making my accidental drowned XP farm. Which is that amethyst geodes are great to use for your permanent skeleton farm. Because getting stained glass means you can keep the area around the spawned lit up outside the farm while the inside is still dark.
We've been playing with my son for 1.5 years, and Pixelriffs is an absolute reference : informative, the builds work, and it's a goldmine of knowledge about the game itself. Many many thanks !
Btw : would you consider enabling the "thanks" feature in RUclips ?
I love waking up to a new survival guide vid. Keep up the good work pix
First episode in a long time where he doesn’t hope we are all having a good day 😢
loving this series :D
Hello 😊😊
Thanks for your video. This was my first redstone machine. I had a sense of accomplishment afterwards.
I was cave mining and came across a skeleton spawner yesterday, so this video is perfect 😁
I forgot just how breakneck your pace of episode release is for the survival guides. You're a goddamn high quality video machine! A machine, i tells ya!
Best voice on RUclips....love your videos
i just found a smelly spawner yesterday and i needed a good tutorial for it lol
perfect timing, Pix!
Nice and compact design. Will definitely use this! Love seeing redstone builds being explained like this!
I like your videos so much. Straight proper instructions no wondering around, keep up the good work! Subscribed 🎉
I'm back after making this xp farm in my own world... found a skeleton spawner not too far from home, though it's located at -20 or so... quite a trip down. Had to block off my ladder as it passed through caves three times! A nice build. I like the glass blocks so we can watch the skellies burn after you hit them. Gotta get used to the dance on the pressure plate to turn it off and on. But this was satisfying, and not too hard--worked correctly the first time through! Next up, decorating the place and making it nice.
That's a pretty cool design to weaken the skeletons without soul sand. I have thought about a similar concept, but I thought your hit had to be the final blow for it to count as your kill. Thanks for the new info!
Yet again, Bedrock has some slight differences:
Spawners on Bedrock only spawn mobs up to a "taxicab" distance of 4 blocks away: that is, 4 blocks away in straight lines, but with the ends of those lines connected diagonally to form a diamond shape. The one block above and below rule still applies.
You can't currently (i.e. in 1.20.0) sneak under slabs on Bedrock, but that should be changing soon.
Just finished my own skeleton spawner farm (and perhaps the first spawner farm I've ever made). Works like a charm! Just need to remember some mobs will spawn with enchanted armor. I got a good spook when a skeleton with Thorns showed up. I thought I got hit by one of them even though I was sure I had set it up right.
I love your videos, and I'm excited to see what you build for the farm! I've used the same farm since 1.13, so I wonder if you're going to use that*, or a new design! Maybe one that uses newer blocks, like dripstone?
Edit: *nope! The farm I use uses a soul sand bubble elevator to lift mobs, then drop them to make them only need one hit after fall damage. BUT, I like this design Way more!! I honestly hated building the bubble column, so this is great!
Yep, I was considering a bubble elevator for this one, but then realised I was saving my first trip to the Nether until tomorrow's episode!
@@Pixlriffs By the way, Thanks for putting the Redstone in a downloadable world. I'm preparing to build it now!
Hey Pix, on the edge where the water stops at the 2 gap drop, if you replace the last row under the water with stairs, the mobs wont get caught on the edge. (they sometimes hang up on the edges in my experience). also if you put an armor stand next to the spot where the mobs are, and if you attack the armor stand (with sweeping edge) it will kill the mobs in the spot next to the armor stand, applying the effects of your sword, and the sword will not take damage when attacking the armor stand.
It's a good idea to put blocks above the spawner to prevent any spawns on top of the spawner itself. If a mob spawns there it will stay there and slow your rates slightly.
Edit: Addressed at 19:35
Just want to say thank you. Ive been playing for 147 hours now destroyed my first spawner coz i didnt know as im new yes im 38 play it coz of my kids but now 147 hours in amd enjoying it lol but the first couple i tried took ages and never got it to work this 1 is perfect for someone like me liked and subscribed because of this 👌👌
Nice build and a classic lava design.
I built something similar with the skeleton spawners deeper in that cave system, but very nearby the house build. For the Spider example, go exploring the caves on that Cherry Grove Mountain, you'll be surprised what is literally sitting in view.
Yaaaay! Thanks for the video! Love your content since Minecraft Survival Guide Season 2! 🙂
Wow... that's a lot of instructions. I'll rewatch this when I'm ready for my skeleton xp farm. :-) My grandson built an xp farm way back years ago. It was a blaze - it was really neat. I am slow when it comes to the red stone. LOL I'm gonna make one of these though.
As a suggestion for dealing with zombies spawning on top of spawners (it wont work for skeletons due to them having ranged attacks) instead of blocking the top of the spawner with a slab which cuts down spawn area more than you think. I would suggest a snow golem. all you have to do is is make a small peep hole at the same level as the block above the spawner inside the walls of your farm. just cage the golem in and it will shoot zombies off the spawner.
Basically the block your golem stands on should be the same y level -1 as your spawner. This is very cheap you just need a shovel to get snow which you have shown in the series and a carved pumpkin head.
leaving this block open for spawns above the spawner increases spawn rate due to spawners not actually spawning mobs in the middle of a block but anywhere where there is open air as long as the zombie's hit box is not colliding with a block, this means with a slab you're not blocking off 1 spawn but the entire area of the block for spawns to occur.
This is a really interesting design. I haven't found a skeleton spawner yet but when I eventually do I think this will be the way to go.
I had to slow the speed down to .75 to follow what you were doing with the redstone :) I've never seen that contraption before! A good way to kill them with just one swipe without having to make a drop shaft!
Speaking of drop shafts, that 1x1 water block in the floor under the hole is kind of dangerous, if you are at all off-center, you'll hit the edge and die (I've seen 2 hard-core players die that way on their streams). I always put a water block 3 blocks above the floor. That way your fall distance is reset when you hit that water and you land on the floor with no damage and no worries about landing exactly in the right spot.
DerpCrafturr!! I've been using his shower forever!!!! Got to play a bit to work with the latest MC version, but it always gets a lol. His snow golem mob farm is fun too. Thanks for the world download and the memories, BTW you can use a dead chicken to kill mobs with the mob softener
Ooh! A dungeon built of Deepslate Bricks instead of cobblestone. I really love that!
Thanks for making such a great tutorial! I'm sure it's helped a lot of people level up fast.
Gday. I've had some success with putting pointed dripstone that they fall on. It does damage and will stop zombie kids too. Love your vids
I will definetly try that redstone contraption to one hit skeletons in my spawner! Awesome vid pix!
I love these constant uploads although I understand they might be a toll on you since you are on 3 series. ❤❤❤
Excellent tutorial! Those diamond finds were insane
You upload at 5am my time so when i wake up i can start watching
Great video, awsome farm! Consider the idea maybe in the future auto farming xp and loot with the help of wolves? Wolf? Also there's an old ilmango's video showing how you can increase the spawn rates by about 5 or 10%, not with a slab on top of the spawner but with a dropper and some fence gates, but that's maybe too much to ask for a early game player. Keep up the good vibes!
Yeah, I didn’t want to overcomplicate things with the fence gate setup - but to be honest, this farm is productive enough for now anyway.
We might talk about wolves later, but if skeletons spawn with thorns armour they can eventually deal enough damage to kill the wolves - so wolves are better for automation in wither skeleton farms, where the skellies never spawn with armour.
Thanks so much@@Pixlriffs !
For greater efficiency, the initial spawning room should be 9x9x9. That is the region the spawner will produce skeletons. But there is a maximum number of mobs that can be inside that area before the spawner turns itself 'off' until some leave the region. To get around that restriction, once you've dug out the 9x9x9 area centered on the spawner, dig the chamber 2 blocks lower. That way when skeleton's spawn they drop outside of the region and their numbers don't count towards the spawning limit, and you produce more mobs.
The spawning region is 9x3x9, and the spawner will take a minimum of 10 seconds before it checks a 9x9x9 area and attempts to spawn more skeletons. The water will easily clear them within that time, so there's no reason to dig it out any deeper than that.
@@Pixlriffs The presence checking area is 9x9x9, though, and the mob limit is 6 for the spawned type. That's why some people recommend leaving 6 blocks of space below the spawner, as mobs can sometimes take more time to clear the area than the spawner's random delay, which is roughly between 10 and 40 seconds.
Hi, Pixilriffs. Thank you for the tutorial. I've been looking for a way to fix my existing skeleton farm. This is exactly what I needed. Keep up the awesome work. And, take care. o/
You can use dripstone spikes and make the skeletons or zombies to fall down from a height of 11 or 12 block to kill them with a single hit; it's a little bit easier to build if you're lazy like me! (or if you're scared of redstone)
oH so good ! You always manage to explain things so that I understand. I will definitely try this !
I've made a skeleton spawner farm before but the lava and the slab on the spawner are definitely things I'll have to try to make mine more efficient!
I love these videos... And your other videos... Just... All the Pixlriff videos!
Happy to be binging these after the update!
Just yesterday I found a skele spawner and I thought, I'll make a farm, pretty sure I know how, I wake up and see the notification, thank you pix, it's as if it was meant to be
@19:59 I like to include a redstone lamp setup in the ceiling, above the slab so that at any point I can turn on/off the spawner without having to go back inside the chamber.
But that would be more advanced redstone than Pixlriffs probably wants to cover right now.
I would normally have done that too, but I don’t have access to glowstone until I trade with villagers or go to the Nether!
@@Pixlriffs agreed... The Nether can be hazardous at the beginning, especially depending on which biome you get at the portal.
Unfortunately for me, it was a bit rough as I got "lucky" to have a basalt delta as my initial foray into the nether in my new 1.20 world.
@@Pixlriffs could using a redstone torch as a light source work temporarily? sending power to the lit torch would turn the torch off and power the spawner.
I have to build this. It looks perfect. Can't wait for the next episode.
Very well made video, Pix! Great explanation! I want that diamond lick you had!
Last skeleton/xp farm setup I made involved a water slide and a soul campfire at the bottom, with hoppers and chests to collect what I wanted... and a simple lava disposal pit to the side for things I didn't. I like this setup though, and may try it in my current world. I've found a few monster spawners in the unreasonably large cave system under my home.
Hey @pixlriffs, you're going to need to go back to the skelly farm and replace the wood with stone - proximity to the lava keeps catching it on fire breaking the Redstone.
Pix , I have a suggestion for you:
Take atleast 2 days to publish next video it will be better. Most of the successful youtubers take time to upload their videos, If you start doing this then you will definitely get more views. Don't let people lose interest in this season 3. Don't make the same mistake you did in season 2.
Exactly!
This is exactly what was in my head right now
People who are playing with him in their worlds will not be able to cope up with him because he plays and uploads so much, far more than what normal people play. That's why slowly his survival guides lose interest.
The lava thing is brilliant!!
The rapid jump cuts are new. I don't hate them. But feels fast for pixlriffs
Yeah I agree but the video might be longer. Sometimes I'm like wait, what did he do?